and you now can't even send an fbi ajejt to investigate because benghazi is unstable. if that's the case, then where was the security before the attack? >> there are a lot of republican complaints about liberal bias in terms of this campaign. some are more credible than others. the president's mostly been covered as a candidate rather than as an incumbent whose record needs to be scrutinized and i think this is an area where there are a lot of questions that need to be answered. how are we protecting american assets overseas and what are the goals in libya and are they being achieved in the right way. that line of argument and attack with press scrutiny and mitt romney making case should be part of the debate, and i think will be because this story does have a lot of unanswered questions. >> and, mika, as we've been saying for some time both on the air and off the air, if president was george w. bush and he had said the middle east going up in flames was a, quote, bump in the road, george w. bush would have been absolutely skewered by the press. >> at the same time is